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Post Civil War
RECONSTRUCTION
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• Lost 260,000 men in war
• $1 billion war debt
• Inflation 7000% (1864)
• Lost 360,000 men in war
• $2.3 billion war debt
• Inflation 182% (1864)
COSTS OF WAR
Union Confederacy
Inflation: a rise in prices caused by a decrease in the value of money
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ABRAHAM LINCOLN
Before Civil War After Civil War
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THIRTEENTH AMENDMENT
• Passed 1865
• Abolished slavery and involuntary servitude in the U.S.
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ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT LINCOLN
• April 14, 1865
• Ford’s Theatre
• John Wilkes Booth- actor & Southern sympathizer shot and killed Lincoln
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PROBLEMS
1. How to restore the Southern states to the Union
2. How to integrate approximately 4 million newly freed African-Americans into national life
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ANDREW JOHNSON
• Succeeded Abraham Lincoln as president
• Initially endorsed harsh punishment for the rebellion’s leaders
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RADICAL REPUBLICANS
• Minority of Republicans opposed to Lincoln’s Reconstruction Plan
• Led by Thaddeus Stevens
• Wanted African Americans to be given full citizenship and the right to vote
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RECONSTRUCTION (1865-1877)
• the period during which the US began to rebuild after the Civil War
• process the federal government used to readmit the Confederate states
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RECONSTRUCTION (1865-1877)
• Johnson readmitted Southern states if they:
• withdrew secession
• swore allegiance to Union
• annul Confederate war debts
• ratify the 13th Amendment
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FREEDMAN’S BUREAU
• Helped former slaves adjust to freedom
• Distributed clothing and food
• Set up schools and industries
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CIVIL RIGHTS ACT OF 1866
• gave African Americans citizenship
• forbade states from passing discriminatory laws known as black codes that severely restricted African Americans’ lives
• Violence
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WHAT CAN YOU CONCLUDE FROM THIS PICTURE?
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FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT
• All persons born or naturalized in the US—including former slaves—are citizens of the country and guarantees equal protection of the laws
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JOHNSON IMPEACHED
• For “not carrying out his constitutional obligations”
• Ulysses S. Grant elected president
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FIFTEENTH AMENDMENT
• stated that no one can be kept from voting because of “race, color, or previous condition of servitude.”